Man&#39;s suspenders.



S. BROWN.

MAN'S SUSPENDERS.

APPLIOAT'ION FILED APR.6,1908.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

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UNITED sTATEs jgrENT orFioE.

SAMUEL BROWN, OF EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO NASHAWANNUOKMFG. (10., OF EASTI-IAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION.

MANS SUSPENDERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 6, 1908.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

Serial No. 425,464.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in MensSuspenders; and I do hereby declare the following when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1 a view in elevation of a pair of suspenders constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a sectional view through one of theback ends on the line a 7) of Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in mens suspenders.

Heretofore the elastic and non-elastic webbing used in the manufactureof mens suspenders has been given an ornamental character either byprinting designs upon it after the manner of printing fabrics, or byweaving it in looms of the Jacquard type which produce upon its surfaceornamental patterns formed by over-shot threads. Of these two methods ofornamentation that by printing fails of its purpose because the effectis cheap, While the method of weaving in J acquard looms is so expensiveas to be prohibitory in all but the highest class of goods.

The-object of my present invention is to utilize plain webbing in theproduction at a low cost of very richly ornamented suspenders withoutinjury even to those portions of the webbing made elastic by theintroduction of strands of india rubber.

lVith these ends in View my invention consists in a pair of menssuspenders comprising two shoulder straps, front suspender endsconnected With the front ends of the said shoulder-straps, and narrowerthan the same. and elastic rear suspender ends connected with the rearends of the said straps, all of the webbing, elastic and non-elastic,entering into the suspenders having its outer face ornamented byembossing producing raised and depressed surfaces.

In carrying out my invention the non-elastic shoulder straps 2, thenarrow non-elastic front suspender ends 3 and the elastic rear suspenderends 4 of the suspenders are formed from plain suspendcr webbing whichby subjection to heat and pressure between engraved rolls is providedupon its outer face with an ornamental, embossed pattern whereby at asmall cost and without any injury to the elastic or non-elastic portionsof the webbing the suspenders are greatly enriched in appearance. I saywithout injury to the elas tic or non-elastic portions of the webbingbecause contrary to expectation I have discovered that elastic webbingmay be subjected to heat and pressure without any apparent deteriorationin its elastic quality.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, a webbing having elastic andnon-elastic strands entering into the webbing and having its outer faceornamented by embossing producing raised and depressed surfaces, wherebyplain webbing may be utilized in the production of richly ornamentedsuspenders without injury to those portions of the webbing made elasticby the introduction of strands of india rubber.

I11 testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL BROWN.

lVitnesses HENRY E. BARNETT, MARY FREIDAY.

